The MP for Bognor Regis came under fire last July for telling the TES that he didn't believe there was a crisis relating to
teacher numbers, and has previously been accused, along with other ministers, of
burying his
head in the
sand over the issue.
This is not the first time Mr Gibb has said this so he will continue to deny there is a crisis.Even if he was correct the solution is not to train as many
teachers as possible because they would still be inexperienced and a great number of these will leave
in the first 5 years after they have qualified.Mr Gibb needs to do some serious talking to
teachers which is something I suspect he is reluctant to do and so the government will keep
burying its
head in the
sand and the problem just will not go away.I take my hat off to all the
teachers who ply their craft under very trying circumstances.